Graduate School of Business
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Ilya Strebulaev
David S. Lobel Professor of Private Equity
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsProfessor Strebulaev is an expert in corporate finance, venture and angel capital, innovation financing, corporate innovation, and financial decision-making. His recent work has examined the valuation of VC-backed companies, decision making by startup investors, returns to VC investors, and impact of venture capital investments. Ilya's work has been widely published in leading academic journals and has been awarded a number of prestigious academic awards. His research has also been featured in a variety of media, including New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
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Susana Vasserman
Assistant Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business and Center Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
BioI am an academic economist specializing in industrial organization.
My work leverages theory, empirics and modern computation to better understand the equilibrium implications of policies and proposals involving information revelation, risk sharing and commitment. My projects span a number of policy settings, including public procurement, pharmaceutical pricing and auto-insurance. -
John James Vrionis Jr
Lecturer
BioJohn Vrionis is a lecture faculty member and teaches SM514, Product Market Fit, in the business school.
John is the founder and Managing Partner at Unusual Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in information technology startups. A seasoned venture capitalist with over two decades of experience, John has been an early investor in a number of successful software startups including: AppDynamics, Arctic Wolf Networks, Carta, Harness, Hallow, Liftoff.io, Mulesoft, Pinterest, Nicira, Nimble Storage and Robinhood.
Originally from Georgia, John graduated from Harvard University, where he studied economics and applied mathematics while also playing varsity soccer. His passion for technology led him to pursue a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Chicago. Inspired by visionary entrepreneurs, John moved to Silicon Valley in 2002 and completed his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before co-founding Unusual Ventures, John served as a General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners for twelve years. -
Yuyan Wang
Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Graduate School of Business
BioYuyan Wang is an assistant professor of marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She earned her PhD in Statistics from Princeton University’s Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering, and holds a BS in Statistics from the Special Class for the Gifted Young program at the University of Science of Technology of China. With over six years of industry experience at Uber and Google Brain as a machine learning researcher, she focused on designing algorithms for understanding and improving the long-term values of recommender systems for Uber Eats and YouTube. Her work has been recognized with the Best Paper Award at Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST).
